PRIDE Shockwave 2006

Heavyweight Title Bout Announced

December 31, 2006

Saitama Super Arena

Saitama, Japan

Line-up so far:

Fight 1 - PRIDE Heavyweight Title Bout

Champion Fedor Emelianenko vs. Mark Hunt (Former K-1 Champion)

Also expected to participate:

- Wanderlei Silva (Current PRIDE Middleweight Champion)

- Takanori Gomi (Current PRIDE Lightweight Champion)

- Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (2005 PRIDE Middleweight GP Champion)

- Dan Henderson (2005 PRIDE Welterweight GP Champion)

- Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic (2006 PRIDE Open-weight GP Champion)

- Josh Barnett  (2006 PRIDE Open-weight GP runner-up)

- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (Former PRIDE Heavyweight Champion)

- Hidehiko Yoshida (Middleweight Contender)

- Kazuyuki Fujita (Heavyweight Contender)

  Newly Added:

- Ricardo Arona (Middleweight Contender)

- Kazuo Misaki (2006 Welterweight GP Champion)

- Sanae Kikuta (Welterweight Contender)

- Shinya Aoki (Lightweight Contender)

- Tatsuya Kawajiri (Lightweight Contender)

- Ikuhisa Minowa (Middleweight Contender)

- Hayato "Mach" Samaurai (Lightweight Contender)

- Gilbert Melendez (Lightweight Contender)

- Denis Kang (2006 Welterweight GP runner-up)

- Joachim Hansen (Lightweight Contender)

- Kazuhiro Nakamura (Middleweight Contender)

- Akihiro Gono (Welterweight Contender)

- Mitsuhiro Ishida (Lightweight Contender)

Subject to change

(11/21/06)